Tag Archive: Workload Optimization

Migrations can be risky, complex, and costly. Terma Software’s workload analytics solution can often correct inefficiencies in an existing job scheduling system without the need to go through a costly and risky migration. However, if the driving factors behind a conversion cannot be overcome, Terma's new Migration Program can reduce conversion costs, minimize risk, and provide a smooth transition.

Terma Software recently developed an eBook with IBM Systems on how to predict major problems and optimize complex mainframe workloads. Fortune 1,000 companies, especially in the financial services industry, struggle to manage complex, mission-critical workloads. Without the proper controls and processes to prevent workload-related delays or stoppages, companies are at risk of jeopardizing business processes and, ultimately, their bottom lines.

Companies purchase Terma products to address challenges inherent in their underlying workload processing. Terma products provide immediate out-of-the-box solutions to workload failures and inefficiencies, which would otherwise require months or years for companies to develop on their own. Nonetheless, customers most likely will not enjoy the full extent of the benefits of Terma broad software offerings if they do not strategically implement and manage them. Doing so requires a thorough understanding of both the software’s capabilities, as well as the objectives for using the software products to begin with.

A couple years ago, a large U.S.-based bank with a complex workload environment decided to outsource their workload development efforts to an offshore service provider, while keeping their workload operations team in-house. Around the same time, the bank introduced a new stream of workload processing into their production environment. When a company adds new workload processes, this can often present a host of challenges for development and operations teams. Needless to say, several challenges ensued.